big defense companies. what happened? >> the president brought in a lot of defense executives to scare house republicans towards revenue, towards tax hikes. but the house republicans keeps saying to the president bring us some replacement cuts, don't bring us tax hikes. >> the only thing i heard today, robert, at this baltimore meeting of the republican house members is, okay, you want to change this thing, let's put some entitlement cuts in there, let's extend the eligibility age or let's have other budget cuts. that's the only condition. the trouble is if you start monkeying around with this, it all might fall apart. >> that's a great part but the house republicans think they're in a great negotiating position because even if nothing happens, these are real cults and they're going to happen on march 1st, $85 billion. the president can play a chess game on politics, but these cuts are happening and republicans are